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Home Special Coverage 2019 Election

A new Knesset, just like the old one

The 22nd Knesset to have fewer women and only 3 members of the LGBT community. Almost all of the MKs were elected in the April election, with only eight freshmen members. Results pending certification of final vote count.

by  Israel Hayom Staff
Published on  09-20-2019 09:45
Last modified: 05-15-2022 12:36
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The 22nd Knesset, which will be sworn in early October, will only have eight new members.

This is mainly because parties that competed in Tuesday's election chose to keep almost the exact same candidate lists after the 21st Knesset dissolved in May, barely a month after it was inaugurated.

The new Knesset will have only 28 women, compared with 29 in the outgoing Knesset. The 20th Knesset holds the record for the number of women legislators: 35.

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The Knesset will have 17 ultra-Orthodox MKs, almost all of them from the haredi parties, as well as nine legislators from the national-religious sector, which hail from various parties.

The Knesset will have 14 non-Jewish MKs and three members of the LGBT community, down from five in the current Knesset.

Three former Israel Defense Forces chiefs of staff will serve in the Knesset: Blue and White's Benny Gantz, Gabi Ashkenazi and Moshe Ya'alon. Apart from them, the new Knesset will have three former majors generals.

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